Plant Engineering

Magazine

Plant Engineering is a trade publication and web site owned by CFE Media. It covers the field of plant engineering and maintenance in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. Established in 1947, Plant Engineering is published monthly. Common topics include plant engineering, plant management and facility maintenance. Source

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The monthly PMI Index produced by the Institute for Supply Management has been the barometer of U.S. manufacturing for years. When it slipped into the 30% range in 2008 and 2009, it paralleled the collapse of the manufacturing market—and the loss of jobs.

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It sounds like a simple concept, but a recent PlantEngineering.com article by Bryan Little of Avanceon that also appears in Applied Automation this month suggests that programmers need to use existing best practices when putting their systems in place. “What new programmers are likely to find after a few years on the job is that these standard practices deliver tangible results.

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It doesn’t surprise us that six of the top 10 stories at www.plantengineering.com in 2017 were about maintenance. We’ve long contended that maintenance needs to be seen as a profit center and not a cost center to ensure the discipline gets the proper attention from both the plant floor team and the corner office.

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The 2017 Plant Engineering Salary Survey will be published next week, and the overall news is positive. The one issue that annually bedevils plant managers is the difficulty they have in finding skilled workers. The issue of a skilled workforce has been the same since we first started asking our readers about their biggest concern heading into each new year. The lack of a skilled workforce has been the top issue for 11 of the last 12 years, supplanted only by the economy in 2015. What’s the answer?

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The world of big sheets of metal is merging with the world of small sensors. As the heating and air conditioning world met in Chicago for the annual AHR Expo from January 22-24, the talk centered on how to run the massive industrial HVAC systems more efficiently. The 2018 event kicks off the industrial trade show season and if AHR attendance is any indication, this year is going to be an active one for manufacturing suppliers and their customers.

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For a 100-year-old Midwestern plant that produces high-performance race car tires, changing from a reactive maintenance program to a preventive maintenance (PM) program was where the rubber met the road. With assets ranging from 20 to 80 years old, breakdown work orders outnumbered planned maintenance work orders by a large margin. Because the facility manufactures expensive race car tires, shifting toward a preventive strategy could help eliminate the friction.

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One of our favorite articles in recent months was the piece from Ray Miciek of Aquitas, where he discussed how to get your management team on board with implementing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), particularly in terms of enterprise asset management (EAM) where IIoT shows the greatest promise.

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The recent Plant Engineering digital report, “Maintenance & Safety” offers a recap of the maintenance journey, which has been a long, slow trek for most manufacturers. It began with reactive manufacturing – what we call the “break-fix” mentality.

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